Exclusive: an interview with fired Professor James Tracy

Free speech at an American university? Or not?

James Tracy responds to questions about his firing, and about press reports of events that have swirled around him.

“Why was he fired? I mean, why was he really fired? What did he do? What did he do to bring this down on himself? He must have done something wrong…Wait. Are you saying he was fired because he exercised his natural right to free speech? He spoke freely? That’s it? That’s all? No, I can’t believe that. He must have said something that I would disagree with—in which case, he should have been fired. I feel better. He said something I disagree with. He should be fired. What right does he have to say something that makes me feel uncomfortable? That crosses the line. I have a right not to feel uncomfortable. Isn’t that the most basic of all rights? Isn’t that written in the Constitution?” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

“MIAMI — A Florida Atlantic University professor who suggested in blog postings and radio interviews that the 2012 massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary and other mass shootings were a hoax designed by the Obama administration to boost support for gun control was fired Tuesday.

“James F. Tracy, 50, a tenured associate professor of communications at the Boca Raton university, has repeatedly called into question the authenticity of recent mass shootings, including the slaying of churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., and office workers in San Bernardino, Calif. In his blog postings and radio interviews, Mr. Tracy has said the Newtown massacre may have been carried out by ‘crisis actors’ employed by the Obama administration.”

“In our view, academic freedom is not a license to do or say whatever you want, consequences be damned. So we welcome the termination proceedings begun against Tracy this week by FAU, a university he continues to embarrass with his ‘didn’t happen’ conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter, the Boston Marathon bombing, the San Bernardino shooting and other mass attacks.”

“Florida Atlantic University moved Wednesday to fire a professor who has faced calls for resignation after claiming the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a staged drill that the community benefitted from financially…The school said in a release on its website that School of Communication and Multimedia Studies professor James Tracy was served Wednesday with a notice of termination, to which he has 10 days to respond.”

“James Tracy, who taught a course chock-full of conspiracy theories at Florida Atlantic University, reportedly harassed parents of a Sandy Hook child, demanding proof of his death… Florida Atlantic University announced on Thursday it planned to fire tenured professor James Tracy for allegedly harassing parents of the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that left 20 children and six adults dead… After years of Tracy stating that the massacre was a government conspiracy, the professor reportedly sent a certified letter to Lenny and Veronique Pozner demanding they prove that their deceased 6-year-old, Noah, ever existed. When the family notified the police of the harassment, Tracy responded on a ‘Sandy Hook Hoax’ Facebook page, claiming that the family had ‘made out very well for itself financially’ from the tragedy… That was enough for the university to take action.”

Here is my interview with James Tracy. Let’s read, at length, what he has to say:

Q: Did you harass Lenny and Veronique Pozner about their son, Noah?

Absolutely not.

In March of 2015, Lenny Pozner, acting on behalf of his “HONR Network,” filed a copyright infringement claim with Automattic, the ISP and parent company of WordPress.com, where my blog, Memory Hole, is housed. Pozner/HONR Network demanded that I take down an image that Pozner purports to hold copyright ownership in. This well-known photograph, purportedly of [Lenny’s son] Noah Pozner, was voluntarily provided to the press by the Pozners in December 2012 following the Sandy Hook massacre event and has since been reproduced millions of times in print, electronic, and online media throughout the world.

An identical photo of Noah Pozner also appeared in December 2014 in the wake of a school massacre in Peshawar Pakistan, purportedly representing a child victim in that shooting. I wrote an article in January 2015 on the re-emergence of this image and included the photo in question. Even the BBC eventually acknowledged how the photo first appeared following the 2012 Newtown massacre. When Automattic/Wordpress presented me with Pozner’s takedown request it remarked that my inclusion of the photo in the post constituted “fair use” under US copyright law, which provides for republication of copyrighted material for the purpose of “commentary or criticism.” Nonetheless, I removed the photograph from my blog, and responded to the allegations, referencing free speech concerns and asking for documentation and evidence supporting Pozner’s copyright claims. To my knowledge, I am not aware of any journalistic outlet that has ever attempted to accurately report this.

I should note that by early 2015, Lenny Pozner had become infamous within the alternative media community for filing blatantly frivolous infringement claims. Pozner’s objective appears to be to shutdown any commentary or criticism of the controversy surrounding his son’s death, as alleged. To contest such claims, anonymous bloggers and YouTubers must divulge their legal identities. Pozner and his HONR Network associates then use this identifying information to stalk and harass Sandy Hook researchers, going so far as to contact their family members, neighbors, and employers, to suggest these researchers are emotionally harming Sandy Hook victims’ families. But there’s nothing unlawful with such study and criticism. On the contrary, it is Pozner and his group who are involved in unlawful stalking, harassment and defamation. This very harassment and defamation of myself reached a crescendo with the Sun-Sentinel’s December 10 publication of an article by Lenny and Veronique Pozner entitled, “Sandy Hook Massacre 3rd Anniversary: Two Parents Target FAU Conspiracy Theorist; FAU Professor Taunts Sandy Hook Parents.”

Q: How do you view free speech and the 1st Amendment, in light of what is happening to you?

Free speech and academic freedom are closely intertwined. When school officials at FAU [Florida Atlantic University] initially expressed their concerns about my blog in 2013, I explained to them that if I could not practice my constitutional rights during my personal time, then my right to academic freedom and professional autonomy on the job is likewise threatened. This is the case for university faculty at FAU and throughout the country. The American Association of University Professors and The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education supported my stance in letters of protest to school officials when FAU first attempted to discipline me for my personal blogging in March of 2013. Regardless of the lies told by the Pozners and their media allies, I don’t think there’s any question given what has transpired that FAU has acted wrongfully, and in violation of its own principals of academic freedom, institutional tenure and my constitutional rights.

Q: On what basis did the University fire you?

FAU’s contention is that I failed to file “outside activity” forms for my personal blog. In January of 2013, they made the same request and at that time I explained that such endeavors are personal and protected by the First Amendment. The administration fell silent for 34 months, and then abruptly resurrected this unconstitutional basis as cause for termination in late December 2015. For their exact “reasoning”, see FAU’s Notice of Termination, dated January 6, 2016.

Q: Before this situation finally blew up, you must have known you were on a collision course with the University. What were your thoughts about that?

I had no idea that university officials would so brazenly violate the well-established principals of academic freedom and my constitutional rights. In 2014, a new president, John Kelly, was recruited from Clemson University and installed at Florida Atlantic. His administration was characterized to me by one senior FAU faculty member as the most anti-faculty administration in thirty-plus years. This administration has proceeded to discipline or threaten with discipline several faculty who’ve made public pronouncements that Kelly and his inner circle disfavor.

In September 2015 the Kelly administration attempted to effectively eliminate tenure by implementing a controversial post-tenure review process that faculty eventually caught wind of and protested. I also reported on that episode.

Q: In a similar vein, people must have been telling you, in the past few years, that you were treading on dangerous ground, relative to job security. How did you respond?

I can’t recall any colleague suggesting that I was in danger of being disciplined, much less being stripped of tenure and fired. I was confident that tenure and the First Amendment still had meaning at FAU. I was obviously proven wrong.

Q: Do you believe your present situation is a test case for academic freedom in America?

Absolutely—for academic freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. All of these protections exist so that faculty and citizens can examine, research, and publicize the potential malfeasance and wrongdoing of those in power. As some academics and journalists have come to realize, however, is the unwritten code guiding what topics can actually be addressed. Political assassinations and similar events are often deemed suspect and off-limits.

I think this is strongly-rooted in the misleading yet almost uniformly adhered to notion that we live in an “open society,” a mythic pluralism overseen by properly functioning political institutions inhabited by fair-minded political leaders and bureaucrats, all of whom have our best interests at heart. Of course, universities are a central part of this mythic democratic order. Researching such difficult subject matter calls the legitimacy of this system into question. At the same time controversial and poorly-understood topics are exactly what tenure and academic freedom exist to foster and protect.

Q: Is anyone at your University defending you?

I have maintained contact with most of the colleagues I’ve come to know in my thirteen years at FAU. They understand how I have been defamed in the press and recognize the grave injustice of the termination. Yet not nearly enough people have condemned the FAU administrators’ action, particularly the egregiousness of their conduct. As noted, some faculty clearly fear retaliation, and rightly so. Others both at FAU and elsewhere have simply bought the disinformation the news media have circulated without examining the facts, which is the most painless and convenient course of action.

Q: What would you say to people who believe your claim about Sandy Hook is completely absurd?

You can’t reason someone out of a position they weren’t reasoned into in the first place. Most challengers of my analyses and criticisms of unbelievable official narratives have not even attempted to explore the evidence researchers and journalists have presented through alternative media. It’s much easier to shoot the messenger, particularly when the messenger is framed as an insensitive deviant, and refrain from critical thinking.

Q: Playing Devil’s advocate for a minute—it’s one thing to espouse a controversial view in a college classroom, but when grieving parents feel pain because you’re going after them, all bets are off, and your University has a right to terminate you, on the basis that you’re crossing a moral line and bringing shame to the institution.

I didn’t “go after” anyone, even though that’s how the legacy news media chose to present and cultivate the controversy. In the immediate wake of FAU’s public announcement that it was poised to terminate my employment on December 16, 2015 the media assumed that I was being fired because of my public comment and letter to Pozner’s HONR Network. Yet the administration fired me on a technicality that cannot warrant the termination of any tenured faculty member, particularly one such as myself who since 2002 has established an impeccable record of research, teaching and service at FAU. I contend that I merely sought the truth, did my job and engaged in constitutionally protected activities. I did not bring shame on FAU. The disclaimer on my blog specifically states that I don’t speak for FAU. In fact, FAU has brought shame to itself by violating long standing principals of academic freedom, and by violating constitutional rights that it is supposed to safeguard and protect.

Q: There is going to be a University hearing, at which you’ll defend yourself against job termination? What shape do you anticipate that hearing will take?

In January 2016, I dropped the faculty union-appointed attorney and hired a counsel of my own choosing who I believe will be a stronger advocate. While I cannot discuss any case details or specifics, it is my understanding that any legal action will be directed at those who have violated my constitutional rights, and I have the right to a trial by jury. This is how the proceedings will take shape, unless a Court determines that I am entitled to relief as a matter of law without a trial.

Q: Here are several questions together; sort them out in whatever way you want to: How do you separate the right to free speech, the right to express your conclusions about Sandy Hook, from the content and substance of your conclusions? What’s the primary issue here? Did your University fire you because you’ve expressed a very controversial view, or because you’ve become embroiled in a conflict with the Pozners?

George Orwell once remarked, “At any given moment there is orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this or that or the other, but it is not done. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in highbrow periodicals.”

I maintain that the primary issue is FAU violated my constitutional rights, which exist to provide the basis for rational argument and exchange, and protect “unorthodox” views, which with the benefit of hindsight often demonstrate their significance. According to the U.S. Supreme Court: “The hallmark of the protection of free speech is to allow “free trade in ideas”–even ideas that the overwhelming majority of people might find distasteful or discomforting.” (Virginia v. Black 2003)

Regardless of how the FAU administration dressed this matter up I don’t believe there’s really any question that I was fired for exercising my constitutional rights.

Q: If your tenured employment is re-established there, how will you go forward?

A perfect definition of an intellectual slave, in my view, is someone who recognizes truth but fears to publicly acknowledge or affirm it. I would very much wish to have my job back. Yet if this were achieved I would remain concerned about efforts by school officials and others to infringe on my constitutional rights and harm me for standing up for my rights, as well as the rights of others.

Q: Do you believe there are people trying to avoid the issue of free speech and academic freedom in your situation? Do you believe they’re shading this controversy and mischaracterizing it, in order to invent other reasons for firing you, so they don’t have to face the question of freedom head-on?

The fact that FAU administrators have chosen to fire me on pretextual grounds is ample proof that they must at all costs avoid the questions of academic freedom and free speech.

Q: Have you looked for help where you thought you might get it, only to be ignored or rejected?

I want to thank those who have stood by me and shown their support. I think it would be best to leave it at that.

—After receiving Tracy’s answers to these questions, I sent him a few follow-up questions. Here is the rest of the interview:

Q: I understand the Pozners claim you questioned, or doubted, or denied that their son died during the Sandy Hook School shooting. Is that correct?

Yes, this is what the Pozners claim in their December 10 article published by the Sun-Sentinel.

Q: Did you ask the Pozners for proof that their son died, that he wasn’t still alive?

My correspondence was not sent to Lenny and Veronique Pozner, but was rather directed to the business address of Lenny Pozner and his HONR Network. The letter requested written verification of Pozner’s identity, his ownership of the copyrighted image, and evidence of the image’s origin. In other words, I asked for Lenny Pozner to back up what he swore to be true under penalty of perjury in his copyright infringement complaint against my ISP and website. This is the specific passage from that letter:

I have reason to doubt the good faith nature of your March 22, 2015 DMCA copyright infringement claim. An action with such potential weight to stifle free speech needs the utmost scrutiny. I am therefore requesting written evidence of the following from you:

1. Proof of your identity via copy of a government-issued document, such as a state driver’s license or passport.

3. Proof of your ownership of said image via a signed and notarized statement from a qualified and licensed forensic expert substantiating your legal ownership of said image, including the date and time of the image’s capture.

Very few publications chose to provide this important context. Instead, they collectively reinforced the much more sensational yet erroneous notion that I made an out-of-the-blue request for “proof that their son died.”

Q: Could you describe the position you’ve taken regarding the Sandy Hook school shooing?

My position from December 2012 has been that the corporate news media never did their job in reporting the Sandy Hook massacre. We now know without any doubt that the actual event differed greatly from what the American public have been told, and as with most poorly-understood terror events the media never backtracked to further investigate the case and admit their “errors” in reportage, some of which now appear to have been intentional. If Americans are going to have an honest debate and possibly endorse policy changes further compromising the Second Amendment such an exchange needs to be based on facts rather than on the media disinformation that’s created a mythology of misplaced fear.

Q: Just to clarify, your letter to Lenny Pozner’s HONR group was essentially asking him to verify he was who he said he was; that he was the father of Noah Pozner; and that the photo of Noah was owned by him. These requests were part of your investigation into the Sandy Hook shooting. You were trying to establish whether the shooting actually took place or was a staged hoax in which no one died. Correct?

Yes, that’s correct.

—end of interview—

My opinion:

Florida Atlantic University is a Florida state institution. It is an extension of state government. Therefore, its decisions about free speech and limits are government decisions. The government is telling a tenured professor he went too far in speaking and writing freely. It fired him.

It entered the dark regions, where morbid dislike for someone else’s reasoning process takes precedence over his right to speak and write.

It’s as if the University said: “You can write this. You can write that. But over here, you can’t write that. No. We don’t like that. It reflects badly on us and, well, we just don’t like it. So we’re going to find a reason to fire you. We’re going to find a reason that doesn’t attack free speech per se, because that, too, would reflect badly on us. We’re not that stupid. So we’ve put our people on the case. How can we fire you on some technicality? How can we appear to be neutral? How can we nail you, while appearing to be as calm and neutral as a surgeon operating on the brain of a stranger?”

This is what bureaucracy does. It likes doing it. It wants to limit free speech. It’s tired of free speech. It’s an annoyance. And worse, free speech can expose the nature and the actions of the bureaucracy.

Free speech is untamed. Free speech can even, God forbid, employ reasoning and evidence and actually make a formal argument, and attempt to establish a case. People “have to be cured of that practice.” It’s dangerous to the State.

The State wants all debate to occur within a chosen context. Outside those boundaries, debate should be belittled. It’s “conspiracy theory.”

Well, here is a theory. If one college in America had the balls to defend one of its own who is expressing a very unpopular view—if one college made that call and stood by it and loudly attacked anyone who tried to impinge on that freedom…who knows what might happen? Who knows how the tide might turn? Who knows how many people might wake up?

You know, suppose something like this happened instead of what has happened:

“As president of Florida Atlantic University, I wanted to bring Professor Tracy here today to give us a complete presentation of his views and his position on the Sandy Hook school shooting. He has now done that, for the last three hours, in front of five thousand people and the press. I thank him for that. There is no ‘we’ here. I’m not going to tell you what ‘we, the University’ think of all this. I’m not in the business of making ‘we’ pronouncements when it comes to research and conclusion. I don’t care what anyone thinks or believes or concludes about Professor Tracy’s stance. He has made his case. If any person or group thinks they can come at this University now and demand we censure Professor Tracy or fire him, be ready for war. I hold up the First Amendment of the Constitution. It’s not just a shield. It’s a sword. I will use it. And you won’t like what it does to you. Somewhere, people have to make a stand for the law and what the law embodies and refers to—which is the natural right of the individual to speak freely. This University is that place. Right now. If you can’t tell the difference between what you think of what someone else is saying and his right to say it, without interruption or censure, you are socially and politically insane. You need help, and the help should come in the form of education. This University is in that business. We are that island. If you want a war on that subject, bring it. But I warn you.

“Don’t screw with me. I’ll crush you.”

You know, something like that. Something we really need.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

While all the questions and posturing about professor Tracey……….did anyone but me notice at no time have any one of his accusers stated emphatically that he was WRONG? That the research was in error? Instead they claimed copyright infringement of what is supposed to be their sons picture! Who the hell does that if this tragedy actually happened?

PPJG- I noticed. It’s part of their MO as they purposely ignore the facts and employ tactics of disinformation.
Check out points #5 and 6 from Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation by H. Michael Sweeney, two of their primary methods of attacking Prof. Tracy.

Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary attack the messenger ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as “kooks”, “right-wing”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “terrorists”, “conspiracy buffs”, “radicals”, “militia”, “racists”, “religious fanatics”, “sexual deviates”, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.
Hit and Run. In any public forum, make a brief attack of your opponent or the opponent position and then scamper off before an answer can be fielded, or simply ignore any answer. This works extremely well in Internet and letters-to-the-editor environments where a steady stream of new identities can be called upon without having to explain criticism reasoning — simply make an accusation or other attack, never discussing issues, and never answering any subsequent response, for that would dignify the opponent’s viewpoint.

~~His administration was characterized to me by one senior FAU faculty member as the most anti-faculty administration in thirty-plus years. This administration has proceeded to discipline or threaten with discipline several faculty who’ve made public pronouncements that Kelly and his inner circle disfavor.~~
This is Mitch Daniels, who, as Governor of Indiana, appointed the members of the Board of Trustees to Purdue University, and began serving as president even before leaving office. He is known as The Blade because, like Kelly, anyone whom he disagrees with is punished. One of the first acts he did as Purdue’s president is to water down the Communications degree…couching it in terms of “you’ll graduate sooner if we don’t have all these messy credits we use to require for the degree…” (paraphrasing).

PROF. JAMES TRACY FIRED FOR SANDY HOOK TRUTH – THE TRUTH MUST STAY HIDDEN ABOUT SANDY HOOK & PROF. TRACY WAS / IS STILL A HUGE VOICE IN EXPOSING THE FACT THAT SANDY HOOK WAS A TV SHOW FILMED WITH ACTORS & WAS NOT AN ACTUAL EVENT

….for entertainment purposes only, not legal advice, Pozner might be issued several default notices that he never provided information requested and filed with all attendant documents on the Internet….

I would like a little more focus on Lenny’s copyright infringement claim with Automattic / WordPress.

I thought that Dr. Tracy voluntarily took down the photo in question from MHB and did this without Automattic / WordPress ever “adjudicating” and deciding on Lenny’s formal copyright infringement claim. Lenny Pozner never replied to Dr. Tracy’s legitimate questions to him regarding this claim.

Is Automattic/Wordpress still accepting claims from entities that do not have to submit proof that they are who they say they are? Is Automattic / WordPress still accepting claims that are not based on any proven basic facts, such as in this case, Proof of Lenny’s relationship to Noah and proof of Lenny’s ownership of photograph.

Has Automattic / WordPress joined John Kelly and Lenny and Veronique in the same crowded putrid pocket?

Perhaps a little known “fact” is that universities will indeed pass along their “bad apples” to other universities, just like your local parish will do, or a big corporation (who can tell the difference these days). Especially when it comes to sex scandals. They will “suggest” that the sex offender “find” another place to go. No firing, just find another place that’s not “here.” And so they do.

And so they continue to offend on an entirely new populace. I know this because I was a victim of someone being “allowed” to move along without scandal, only to come to my city and college and continue to “offend.” But even when turned in at the new school, the same person was never brought up on any charges, never fired, was given the benefit of the doubt, and continued on to be the sleazebag that he is today. His punishment? “Counseling.”

“He Said, She Said” applied, even when dicey emails were brought in as evidence against the perp. So universities have a peculiar albeit normal way of protecting “their own.” It’s when you go against their corporate grain in public that they will seek to destroy you, just like Tracy is being destroyed now. He’d have fared better if he’d engaged in sex with an undergrad than mention anything about Sandy Hook. Sad, isn’t it?

You’re absolutely right: sexual impropriety is far less aggregious than being on the wrong side of the political coin, at least in academia. How sad is that? However, any sin is a mortal one if they want to get rid of you. And if you haven’t committed one, they’ll make one up.

“It’s when you go against their corporate grain in public that they will seek to destroy you, just like Tracy is being destroyed now. He’d have fared better if he’d engaged in sex with an undergrad than mention anything about Sandy Hook. Sad, isn’t it?”

Yes, very.

“Corporate grain” seems a little mild in describing motives of the people of universities to act in extreme injustice and dishonesty. The same quality of deep evil is at work in both institutions, church and university.

None of these people and entities, especially those operating in Dr. Tracy’s case, have established a truly just cause. Their stated cause is simply a lie to cover their unjust motives. Even it they had a just cause, which they don’t, they have executed an unjust and unbalanced or disproportionate punishment in relation to the ostensible “offense.” And most importantly, none of these people have a true zeal for good and order at Florida Atlantic University and its students.

Tracy got too close to the truth and that, in today’s world, is too close for comfort, his comfort. Once the laws are amended by NWO pundits, “they” will be allowed to do anything/everything to you and you won’t be able to fight back. The rule of law was our bastion for so long, now it’s “so long, law”.

“Pozner’s objective appears to be to shutdown any commentary or criticism of the controversy surrounding his son’s death, as alleged.”

The modus operandi of an intelligence operation, and, by extension, an intelligence agent is to control the flow of information.

The fact that Kelly was appointed FAU President after this blog was established, along with the media blitz, suggests to me that the feds are likely behind the entire affair. It would not be the first time the FBI hijacked a college school board for years on end.

You bribe Kelly, tell him to shut up or else, and then you go after Tracy. I’ve felt all along that these peculiar events are staged at the very highest levels. Higher than Obama, too.

We are in the midst of a takeover by sinister and enormously evil forces. Crime exists at all levels of the world’s governments and businesses. Government and business/banking want to run the entire world, including what you had for breakfast this morning.

This is why it is so crucial to get the facts out to the populace. So they can bury their heads in the sand, that’s why.

I think it is more likely Kelly was hand picked to get rid of Tracy, set an example in doing so, and, extend a conservative agenda that included de facto ending of tenure through post tenure review. He was picked, in part,because he didn’t need to be bribed. His expressed view is that the professors should be subject to a litmus test that precludes them from expressing views outside the mainstream. The post tenure review is a device to keep the professors on a short leash. This is definitely a test case.

University Presidents are an extension of the University Board of Trustees. These are not academics, their interest is not promoting in free thought for professors and students. Rather, their interest is in serving their political overlords, and in doing this, keeping the federal funds and research grants rolling in.

“If one college in America had the balls to defend one of its own who is expressing a very unpopular view—if one college made that call and stood by it and loudly attacked anyone who tried to impinge on that freedom…who knows what might happen?” I’ll tell you what would happen IMO…that college would face the same persecution and harassment that the professor did on a larger scale. I can imagine forms of blackmail, ie-no more funding available,raises for faculty,etc….

A good example is the Oberlin case. The Board of Trustees has stepped in and wants to fire professor Karega. The College Board of Trustees are not academics, but rather more conservative gatekeepers that handle the finances, donors and ultimately decisions, such as in the Oberlin case, where they decided the parameters of free speech for their professors.

Where’s Pozner’s cellphone video of any part of the drama at the school, even after it took place? Or anyone else’s? It doesn’t exist.

Here’s the tragic footage from The Oregonian clearly showing from minute 5.5 roughly LeVoy being gunned down after the van was hit multiple times by bullets. He is never given medical attention at all but left in the snow to expire. Also, tear gas and more bullets drilled into the van simply to terrorize them further.

Why is this cellphone video important? It was released from the Sheriff’s office, AND it is private social media which was totally absent from Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Charlie Hebdo, and Paris. Not one private cellphone video from these events was ever taken of the so called victims, or walls to show bullets, or even perpetrators, etc, which is totally illogical if these events actually happened as reported.

That right there is one video you will never see aired on the MSM. The Drudge Report won’t even air it. They don’t dare show the murder of Mr. Finicum and the attempted murder of the rest of the folks in that truck.
It was all justified don’tcha know.

Some supporters have claimed Finicum was shot while surrendering, that he was unarmed and that he was shot nine times. The sheriff in neighboring Grant County, Glenn Palmer, described the police operation as an “ambush.”

The reason the FBI video has no sound and no dash cam footage is because when they claimed he “Reached at his side for a weapon” he had actually been shot by the Officer standing behind the truck they were all in. The second Cop who you see come out of the woods “Finished him off” MURDER!

BEND – An FBI agent is suspected of lying about firing twice at Robert “LaVoy” Finicum and may have gotten help from four other FBI agents in covering up afterward, authorities revealed Tuesday.

The bullets didn’t hit Finicum and didn’t contribute to his death,
(YEA RIGHT Lying Scum)
but now all five unnamed agents, part of an elite national unit, are under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. Inspector General Michael Horowitz is leading the independent inquiry.

The remarkable disclosure came as a team of local investigators released findings that two state troopers shot Finicum three times in the back during the chaotic scene at a police roadblock Jan. 26. One bullet pierced his heart, an autopsy showed.

Now why would the FBI make believe that they can’t unlock the iphone? Doesn’t Tim Cook seem like an unlikely candidate to stand up to the government? It was just a few years back that it was revealed that Verizon, and most other telecommunications and tech companies, complied in lockstep with the far more intrusive PRISM Program.

It is possible that the FBI is seeking to make encryption breaking law for precedent value. However, it is just as plausible that San Bernardino was a drill. In any event, if Snowden is right (and he is a tech expert) the public is being subjected to major PSOPS manipulation.

I have high confidence that San Bernadino was a false flag with perhaps patsies, has all the characteristics, drill in progress, seeming crisis actors, perps don’t fit the profile, official story does not match eyewitness accounts, etc.,
I must admit I am blown away this occurred on our Jesuit governor’s watch, Jerry Brown, perhaps out of my own naievete’
but years ago listening to the servant of the people on public radio out of Oakland who would have thought Mr. Moonbeam would be making trade negotiations with the mad Israeli PM…

“I must admit I am blown away this occurred on our Jesuit governor’s watch,” Your “Jesuit governor” is a lot more “a Jesuit” than our “Jesuit president”, Bill Clinton (Georgetown University). Your governor spent about four years in a Jesuit seminary studying to become a priest.

There are approximately 31 “Jesuit” colleges and universities in the USA and if we say every student that ever attended one of these is “a Jesuit”, we have a whole lot of “Jesuits” floating around. “and the light shines on in the darkness and darkness could not overcome it.”John 1:5

A pet peeve I have is people saying we have “constitutional rights”. That is not accurate. We have human rights, which in America were written down to make it clear they are not to be violated by any form of government. What I think all educated people should properly proclaim is that as Americans, we have constitutionally protected rights…making clear that it’s not some government document that provides us with our rights, (they come from our very humanity) and are specifically protected by the written constitution. Of course, since 1781 the organic constitution has been laying dormant…so even that point is probably moot. 🙁

Your partially right Kevin. the Constitution is just a work contract/operation manual. Some fairly smart peeps back in the day took a look at that work contract and said holy sh!t we better do something about this and along came the Bill of Rights. Enacted in 1791.
The original ten Articles of the Bill of Rights are Articles. Not Amendments. An amendment means something is changed. The original ten Articles didn’t change anything. They only asserted the rights of the People.
Now I’ll tell you a little something about the Bill of Rights that a whole lotta folks don’t want you to know.
Article 9:
“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
All laws, treaties, contracts, codes, statutes, ordinances, etc. etc. must all originate from the Constitution. Why? Because it is the original contract.
What’s Article 9 say?
See, the truth is that through Article 9, the Bill of Rights supersedes the Constitution. The Bill of Rights supersedes the so called Supremacy Clause in the Constitution and thereby supersedes all laws, treaties, contracts, codes, statutes, ordinances etc. etc.
The original Ten Articles of The Bill of Rights is the supreme Law of the land.
And that is the secret that the psychopaths in power don’t want anyone to know. If you got the original Ten Articles of the Bill of Rights, you really don’t need much else.
But, corruption prevails, as it always seems to do.
If I were Prof. Tracy i would file a Writ of Mandamus with the university and with a bunch of Florida Judges ordering them to uphold the Law.
When the Writ is ignored (which i’m sure it will be) Prof. Tracy is well within his sphere of influence to exert his Rights in whatever manner he sees fit.
Psychopaths are still human. They’re not immortal. If you cut them they will bleed. If you shoot them they will die.
I don’t think Prof. Tracy or any of his commenting followers will do this….probably just leave it to somebody else.
Cry to the heavens that your Rights are violated, and then leave it to somebody else to try to fix it.
Take the Law into your own hands and fix it. It is your Law.

In my previous comment I outlined how the original Bill of Rights is supreme Law. You chose not to refute this which is good for you.
In this comment I will prove to you why you do not own a single thing you think you own.
I don’t know which state you live in but in my State of Michigan I pretend to own an old 94 Ford pickup truck. It’s old and crappy but the motor runs good still. It’s titled and registered in my name. It’s also titled and registered and plated in the name of the State of Michigan. Which means that the State of Michigan owns my truck.
Why does the State of Michigan’s ownership of my truck supersede my ownership? Because collectively, the State of Michigan has more guns than I do as an individual.
I’m telling you this for a reason. If you live in America, you live in a communist country, bereft of any Rights under Law.
This is proven by anyone’s claim that they think they own something when they really don’t.
I have a house. But if i don’t pay the property taxes, well along comes the State to kick my ass to the curb because i didn’t pay my rent. The State then sells my house to a bank who in turn sells it to somebody with a mortgage attached.
The 13th Amendment freed the slaves.
The 14th Amendment turned everyone into SUBJECTS.
If you claim to be a Citizen of the United States, then you are a SUBJECT.
The 14th Amendment was never legally ratified by the way. They just said it was.
Your Rights are outlined under Law. But if your not going to stand up and see that your Rights are enforced under Law then nobody else is going to do it for you.
If it has to be done at gunpoint then so be it.
Or we can just let the corruption continue unabated and see where it takes us. Curl yourselves up in a ball and piss your pants.

“Am I the only one to conclude that tc is calling for violence against the psychopaths that offend us when the law doesn’t offer relief?”

DING DING DING! You got it.I already pointed out how the original Bill of Rights is supreme Law. Any attempt by anyone, psychopaths or just the plain greedy, to deprive someone of those Rights should be met with force. Overwhelming force. I really don’t understand why anyone would argue about this. The Law is self evident. It’s explained in easily understandable English.

“tc then goes on to disparage “Prof. Tracy… (and) his commenting followers” for not taking the law into our own hands in this way.”

Yep. i think Prof. Tracy and his pussy whipped followers will lawyer up, lawyer be talking to lawyer, lawyer talking to magistrate, magistrate be talking back to lawyer…etc etc. and at the day Tracy might get a bit of money. But he doesn’t get his Rights back.

“tc’s remarks seem counterproductive to the MHB scene, which is usually so groovy.”

Well. I apologize. I didn’t mean to ruin your groovy scene. God knows we should all just be laid back and let other folks do our thinking for us. Even when it’s to our detriment. You’ve convinced me….I’m gonna eat several mushrooms and get back to you sometime in the next decade.

“I think tc is much more “langley” than any of the other commenters here with whom one might disagree.”

This seems like an insult. I feel I have no choice but to tell Toni to cram her/his langley up his/her langley. You just got langlied.

LOL Toni. Let’s not talk about the Bill of Rights being the supreme Law of the land. You don;t want to talk about that. That couldn’t possibly be important or anything.
Let’s talk about how I’m a troll, even though I haven’t trolled anybody. and Holy sh!t. How can you not see that that guy is a dude? Sh!tty pic for sure, but the five o clock shadow? The adams apple underneath the chin? C’mon.
You know what? Your right. I’ll go back to where I came from so I don’t have to argue the obvious.
Good luck with your delusions.

I had focused on this one paragraph:
“Psychopaths are still human. They’re not immortal. If you cut them they will bleed. If you shoot them they will die.”

My thought on this was that, in fact, psychopathic or not, we’re NOT dealing with people, but non-human, inanimate, legal entities. They do NOT bleed when they’re cut or die when you shoot them.

Ephesians 6:12 KJV
[12] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places .

When tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.Hamilton. It is here.Fight the good fight,expose the truth,we are with you.Obama may have used this as a double edged sword to actually make more money off his propaganda as the #1 gun salesman(investments of the elite) and attacking our rights.

BBC radio did this little 18 min conspiracy theory hit piece a few days ago. Features Jim Fetzer on the “pro” side, and 2 establishment tools on the “anti” side. Sandy Hoax, 911, Holocaust™, JFK, Apollo and some other conspiracies are all briefly addressed, but it’s mostly high-level CT talk, with more time given to the 2 horn-rimmed glasses sounding tools skoooling listeners about the psychosis afflicting most CTists. Fetzer holds his own pretty well overall… if BBC wanted a “proper slant” taken home by listeners, I’d say they failed– it was a wash at best. Description & audio inside:

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